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...single-season Ivy League marks for rushing yards and touchdowns. His final ledger—1,619 yards, 23 scores—still puts him in rarefied air in Ancient Eight history and within striking distance of some of the more illustrious all-time records held by Clifton Dawson ’07 come 2008. Did I mention that he played the final four weeks, when he carried 123 times, with a broken toe? Critics will rightfully indict Yale’s senior quarterback Matt Polhemus for his inability to rally the squad from its early deficit with the pass...
...losing found itself immersed, uncomfortably but happily, in a culture of winning.But those aren’t my only sports memories from freshman year. I also remember a spotless 10-0 Harvard football season, led by the truly unfair tandem of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 and Clifton Dawson ’07. And I remember my first exposure to The Game, a 35-3 demolition of the last obstacle between the Crimson and the Ivy title.The truth is, Harvard had a culture of winning of its own my freshman year. And with both Boston and Harvard championships coming...
...clinic that demonstrated our superiority in every element of the game. On defense, Harvard held Yale’s star running back Mike McLeod—who entered the game averaging 174 yards per outing—to 50 yards, stuffing all comparisons of McLeod to Clifton G. Dawson ’07. And Eli quarterback Matt Polhemus completed as many passes to Yale receivers as he did to Harvard defenders, allowing Steven K. Williams ’08 to set career and season marks for interceptions. Then there was the Harvard offense: Quarterback Christopher F. Pizzotti...
...year ago in this very column I explained to naïve Harvard fans boasting about Clifton Dawson’s new Ivy League career rushing record that a dynamic sophomore from New Britain had already made the senior old news...
...involved in musicals of some sort since elementary school, and he began his serious study of opera about seven years ago.It’s on the field where Van Niel has really broken out this year. He played his first three years in the shadow of Crimson great Clifton Dawson ’07, who was busy climbing to the top of the Ivy League’s all-time rushing list. With an NFL-caliber running back taking carries, Harvard wasn’t forced to run too many two-back sets.With Dawson’s graduation, however...